There are no stories in my work. There is only what the viewers find within it for themselves. I am more interested in exploring time and multiple possibilities that exist in reality.
One artist I am aware I keep coming back to, is Daisuke Yokota and I am grateful to Russell Murray for introducing me to his work.
I am fortunate to now own a copy of his book ‘Colour’ and it is a resource I have often referred to. I’m not quite sure how his photography is defined, if indeed that’s important, perhaps he is a good example of post-photography. He has certainly been linked to the Japanese post-war aesthetic ‘are-bure-boke’ (grainy, blurry, out-of focus’). Whatever, the definition it is his sense of exploration and experimentation that really appeals to me.
Yokota’s work is very varied from the strong interior monochromes of ‘This is Tomorrow’ and the inky blacks of “inversion,’ to the vivid textures of ‘Colour.’ He has also produced zines, and at least 15 photobooks, several of which are handmade. In describing his work he talks about trying to capture both process and image in the final output, ‘I tried to maintain the textures, sounds and smells to give the physical feeling of process.’
His response is to destroy, in order to breathe fresh life into our understanding of the limits of photography…traditional notions of composition are no longer relevant.
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Daisuke Yokota